by Joel Willick | Apr 29, 2024
The provincial government is providing an investment aiming to increase Indigenous involvement in the natural resource sector. The government announced a $400,000 investment, on Monday morning, into the Saskatchewan First Nations Natural Resource Centre of Excellence....
by MBC News | Apr 29, 2024
Preparations are being made to possibly include Northern Saskatchewan as a team in the Arctic Winter Games. The circumpolar games are held every two years and includes teams from Northern Alberta, Yukon, The Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Northern Quebec, Alaska,...
by MBC News | Apr 26, 2024
A federal public safety official was in Pelican Narrows this week meeting with community leaders over increasing crime rates. In the past several months, leaders from Peter Ballantyne Cree Nation have raised the alarm over the escalation of crime in the northern...
by MBC News | Apr 26, 2024
A public inquest will take place next month into the 2015 death of an Indigenous boy. Haven Dubois was discovered unresponsive in a creek in the east end of Regina on May 20, 2015. A bystander performed resuscitation efforts on the 14-year-old. He would later die in...
by MBC News | Apr 26, 2024
UPDATE 2:16 PM April 26. RCMP confirm the victim is Brianna Hayes of Oxbow. Tyler Japp has been charged with second-degree murder and will appear in court on Monday. —– RCMP are investigating a homicide in the RM of Moose Mountain. Police said an...
by Joel Willick | Apr 25, 2024
The public will have to wait on the sentence for a former RCMP officer convicted of manslaughter in the death of his lover. A sentencing hearing took place Thursday at Court of Kings Bench in Prince Albert for Bernie Herman over his conviction in the killing of Braden...
by MBC News | Apr 24, 2024
International aersospace company Boeing has provided a sizable investment into the Saskatchewan Indian Institute of Technology. On Wednesday, Boeing announced a $17 million investment to expand SIIT’s Saskatoon Aviation Learning Centre. Boeing was initially part...
by Jenna Smith | Apr 24, 2024
The second volume of a book series, Dene Strong, is launching on May 10. The collaborative book was created with the help of more than 20 Indigenous People of all ages from the La Loche area. Dene Strong aims to celebrate the Indigenous People of northern...
by MBC News | Apr 23, 2024
Heritage Canada is providing $1.2 million over the next two years to support Indigenous broadcasting in Saskatchewan. Missinipi Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) is getting $600,000 in fiscal years 2024-25 and 2025-26 to continue to produce radio programming in English,...
by Joel Willick | Apr 23, 2024
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau visited Wanuskewin Heritage Park Tuesday morning where he highlighted many Indigenous investments in last week’s budget. The budget included $9 billion for Indigenous files and Trudeau highlighted many of them during his address....
